Satellite News

Bermuda has asked the UK to help settle its conflict with the Isle of Man over the 96.2 degrees West geostationary slot.

Thales has reportedly pledged to not use its dominant position in electronic conduits to distort competition in the satellite market, in exchange for getting European Union approval for its acquisition of 67 percent of Alcatel Alenia Space.

Goodrich Corporation said it will provide a fine guidance sensor that is to be installed aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the planned servicing mission.

The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X will be launched from Baikonur on 27 February 2007 on a Dnepr-1 rocket. This new launch date has now been announced by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) along with its industrial partners Astrium GmbH and Infoterra GmbH, responsible for the commercial exploitation of TerraSAR-X data.

A Russian Federation military satellite was deorbited and burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere Nov. 20 after its mission was…

Newsat Ltd., a Melbourne, Australia-based satellite…

International Communications Group (ICG) announced Nov. 20 its…

Thrane & Thrane Airtime A/S has signed the first customers for Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service. Thrane & Thrane Airtime, a BGAN distributor for Inmarsat, will provide…